Washington Watch Articles From 2023


Israel/Palestine Is Fracturing the Democratic Party 
Washington Watch Ellie Kreidie Washington Watch Ellie Kreidie

Israel/Palestine Is Fracturing the Democratic Party 

The war over Gaza has had an explosive and surprising impact on the cohesion of the Democratic coalition. For decades now, the American body politic has been fractured mainly over critical social and cultural issues ranging from race and gender to guns and immigration—more often than not with Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other. Only in rare instances have foreign policy concerns entered the equation and never in the way that Israel/Palestine has in recent weeks.

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